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Johannesburg - South African trade union Solidarity will begin wage negotiations over a 10 percent pay rise demand with Lonmin, the world's third largest platinum producer, it said on Tuesday.
Solidarity said in a statement that it would also demand for a "market-related" increase in housing allowance for mineworkers, artisans and officials and that the first round of negotiations would take place on Wednesday and Thursday.
Solidarity said it had already reached agreements with the coal and gold producers for increases of between 9% to 11% and a 9% pay rise was reached with Northam Platinum - a unit of black owned Mvelaphanda Resources.
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), the country's largest union, said in a separate statement that it had rejected a raised 6.5% pay rise offer by Lonmin, after the union had lowered its earlier 25% pay rise demand to 20%.
NUM also said Lonmin and the union had agreed during their negotiations that the company should phase out sub-contractors and instead offer 'decent employment'.
But Lonmin and NUM reached a stalemate over labour brokers. The company insisted it would continue to use brokers when employing people, the union said.
- Reuters